NationStates

Article I: The New South Hell Greater Co-Prosperity Sphere

The New South Hell Greater Co-Prosperity Sphere, often shortened to the Hellosphere - but more accurately named the ARBosphere - was an enigmatic aggregate of nations associated with New South Hell and all controlled by the mysterious entity known as ARB. Details about this entity are scarce, although we know that their primary seat of power was The Voice of ARB.

The ARBosphere contained nearly 400 nations, each with their own unique mission and citizens, spread across many regions including The Bad Place, Ulthar, Ideology Testing Inc. and more. While The Bad Place was the residence of some of the ARBosphere's most illustrious personalities, it was the complex geopolitics between the dogmatic nations of Ideology Testing Inc that gave rise to one of the ARBosphere's best works - an essay entitled with the region's name, describing, from a top-down level, the seventeen nations of the region and their interactions.

This essay was expanded and revised multiple times, and includes details on the informal agreements of the freedom-loving North; the Western bloc of progressive, modern havens; the devout, heavily-armed alliance of the East; and the terrible conflicts within and without the psychotic nations of the South; alongside the major issues the region faced, such as mass refugee exodus from the South, religious conflicts with the Psychotics, and disconcertingly widespread construction of WMDs.

Finally, any description of the ARBosphere would be incomplete without describing some of the more exotic nations it contained. Hypermom, a Mother Knows Best State in all but official classification, ruled by a well-meaning-if-overbearing parent with benevolent intentions; Lazy Faerie, a fuzzy-wuzzy state ruled by an ignominious godmother, somehow one of the nicest nations for a person to inhabit in The Bad Place; The Outer Satellites, a nation desiring nothing more than to advance humanity by terraforming barren moons in its home solar system; Badness Gracious, ambassador from The Bad Place to Ulthar, home to the pioneers of Spectral Theory (as we shall discuss soon); and of course, New South Hell, which, despite its facade of utter inhospitableness, somehow managed to be even worse than it appeared - but remains commendable for its punishment of only the worst of criminals.

Article II: Kindly Professor Hell and the Ideobots

Another excellent series of writings produced by the ARBosphere are the insights into the nature of our universe produced by scholars from Kindly Professor Hell and Badness Gracious, known formally as Spectral Theory. By quantifying a nation's ideological "themes" (e.g. "culture" or "generosity") and tracking them over time, these scholars were able to create a series of robots known as Ideobots, who were able to manage satellite states according to a predefined set of ideologically themed values.

Spectral Theory was one of the most in-depth projects undertaken by the nations of the ARBosphere, ongoing for no less than four years. In the course of the experiment, the ideological themes were refined many times, eventually ending up with a full thirty-six themes ranked at twenty different levels, and no less than fifty ideobots using the themes to manage vassal states. To perform the experiment, Professor Hell - the leader of the Spectral Theory research department, for whom Kindly Professor Hell was named - and his team had to painstakingly classify all three-hundred-odd common dilemmata of the time - including over a thousand individual choices.

Article III: Other Achievements of the ARBosphere

The ARBosphere encompassed a fantastic set of nations whose achievements are too complex and numerous to describe in just one document, and the many writings they produced are well worth the read. Nevertheless, here are some that bear specific notice:

• successfully negotiating peace after the Skeleton Army's numerous invasions of Ulthar and The Bad Place,
• hosting an excellent party, attended by the entire ARBosphere as well as several Ultharian regulars and catered to by - surprisingly - the Skeleton Army, as a celebration of New South Hell's third birthday,
• using the research conducted by Kindly Professor Hell to publish analyses on many other topics, including enhancing nation descriptions, reporting on newly-released national statistics, and explaining the frequency of dilemma reoccurrence.

Article IV: A Statement of Commendation

As recognition of a truly unique group of nations and all their varied achievements, the Security Council hereby Commends The Voice of ARB.

It is worth noting that these experiments took place well before common World Census Bureau infrastructure for these tasks,

Hulldom wrote:It cannot be stated how much I absolutely and utterly adore this.

Hulldom wrote:I really don’t see much to improve on here, but given you do need to cut 80 characters, I don’t believe

It is worth noting that these experiments took place well before common World Census Bureau infrastructure for these tasks,

is particularly necessary.

The experiments are impressive on their own without the qualifier of the World Census’ infrastructure not being up to snuff yet.

Anne of Cleves in TNP wrote:Support in principle.

Hulldom wrote:I would also say, I don’t think you need to include the article headings unless you just want them. I like the idea of a coherent narrative, and I don’t think the headers are necessary.

Bhang Bhang Duc wrote:This may seem like a silly question Sherp, but are all the nations mentioned in the draft alts of the same main nation? Sorry, but I know absolutely nothing about the nominee.

The draft is interesting. I like the style - the story telling arc should satisfy a couple of players to whom every draft should be that way.

There’s a lot to unpack in this proposal, very detailed. But based on my first couple of read throughs you get my support.

Honeydewistania wrote:

Bhang Bhang Duc wrote:This may seem like a silly question Sherp, but are all the nations mentioned in the draft alts of the same main nation? Sorry, but I know absolutely nothing about the nominee.

All the nations - except Sirocco of course - are to my knowledge alts of the guy.

SherpDaWerp wrote:What's the process like for seeking a legality check? Just sit around and wait for Sedge et. al. to read this thread?

Sedgistan wrote:

SherpDaWerp wrote:What's the process like for seeking a legality check? Just sit around and wait for Sedge et. al. to read this thread?

viewtopic.php?p=38113783#p38113783

• paragraph 1 introducing "ARB" who controls a bunch of nations; is this IC enough to not hit 2b
• paragraph 5 references KPH's appointment as Issues Tech; does this hit 3a considering I'm not mentioning "actions taken as part of their role"

Sedgistan wrote:Paragraph one is fine until you get to mentioning an "avatar", which sounds like more of a reference to a person(ality) than a nation.

Paragraph five is a problem, as you're citing their appointment to a staff role. You might not explicitly have said that's a reason for the Commendation, but it's implied.

It would perhaps be different if your point boiled down to "they did all this great work as a player until they were forced to stop it when they became a staff member", but what you have is "their work as a player was so good they got appointed to site staff to improve this stuff". You're using their staff appointment to reinforce your reasons for Commending.

The New South Hell Greater Co-Prosperity Sphere, - often shortened to the Hellosphere -but more accurately named the ARBosphere - was an enigmatic aggregate of nations associated with New South Hell and all controlled by the mysterious entity known as ARB. Details about this entity are scarce, although we know that their primary seat of power was The Voice of ARB.

The ARBosphere contained nearly 400 nations, all eachwith their own unique mission and citizens, and wasspread across many regions including The Bad Place, Ulthar, Ideology Testing Inc. and more. While The Bad Place was the residence of some of the ARBosphere's most illustrious personalities, it was the complex geopolitics between the dogmatic nations of Ideology Testing Inc that gave rise to one of the ARBosphere's best works - an essay entitled with the region's name, describing, from a top-down level, the seventeen nations of the region and their interactions.

This essay was expanded and revised multiple times, and includes details on the informal agreements of the freedom-loving North; the Western bloc of progressive, modern havens; the devout, heavily-armed alliance of the East; and the terrible conflicts within and without the psychotic nations of the South; alongside the major issues the region faced:such as mass refugee exodus from the South, religious conflicts with the Psychotics, and disconcertingly widespread construction of WMDs.

The ARBosphere encompassed a fantastic set of nations whose achievements are too complex and numerous to describe in just one document, and the many writings they produced are well worth the read. Nevertheless, there here are some that bear specific notice:

Sedgistan wrote:Whoops, I missed replying earlier. Without having re-read the proposal, what you've said you've done would solve the issues. I agree that getting any legal reference to the Issues Tech role is almost impossible, and best not attempted. (Also unnecessary, as it's his contributions as a player that are significant enough to warrant a Commendation, regardless of later staff role.)

Guess and Check wrote:I think you don't need the commas in the first sentence, from what I can see. Also don't really need "and all".

Guess and Check wrote:"each" may be a better word than and I don't think you need the second and.

Guess and Check wrote:Colon may be best to avoid here considering the heavy usage of semi-colons, imo.

Guess and Check wrote:I feel "here" may be a bit of a better word.

That Crazy Casbah Sound wrote:Hosseini stroked his chin. "Certainly a worthy nominee." he mused. "We are in support. Though we wonder why the need to abbreviate the ARBosphere as the Hellosphere in the beginning, when the Hellosphere is not used anywhere else in the text and is noted as less accurate. Also, 'Professor Hell and his team' could refer to the professor, but the similarities with the nation name Kindly Professor Hell may cause confusion. I'd suggest requesting otherworldly forces to weigh in on the use of the word 'his'."

SherpDaWerp wrote:snip

Howard P Lovecraft wrote:Hypermom, a Mother Knows Best State in all but name
Hypermom, a Mother Knows Best State in every respect
[“in all but name” would be saying “in all except the name”, whereas the intention is to say “in all including the name”]

Howard P Lovecraft wrote:one of the nicest nations for a person to live in The Bad Place
one of the nicest nations for a person to live in in The Bad Place

Howard P Lovecraft wrote:successfully repelling the Skeleton Army's numerous invasions of Ulthar and The Bad Place,
successfully surrendering to the Skeleton Army's numerous invasions of Ulthar and The Bad Place,
[signing the thighbone of surrender was the gesture to receive beerquila and sticky ribs]

Howard P Lovecraft wrote:hosting an excellent party, attended by the entire ARBosphere as well as several Ultharian regulars and - to much surprise - the Skeleton Army, as a celebration of New South Hell's third birthday,
hosting an excellent party, attended by the entire ARBosphere as well as several Ultharian regulars and catered to by the Skeleton Army, as a celebration of New South Hell's third birthday,

SherpDaWerp wrote:"in all but official classification"

SherpDaWerp wrote:kept the surprise